THE NEW TYNE BRIDGE
CEREMONY OF OPENING. KING AND QUEEN TO ATTEND. (British Official Wireless.) (Rnited Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, October 9. (Received Oct. 10, at 5.5 p.m.) The King and Queen will break their journey from Balmoral, where they have recently been in residence, and will open to-morrow the new Tyne bridge which spans the river at Newcastle. The two existing railway bridges across the Tyne at Newcastle were also opened by royalty, one of them, built by the great engineer Robert Stephenson, being opened by Queen Victoria in 1849. The new bridge is intended for road traffic only. It is a high level bridge of single span, it is 531 feet long, and is the largest steel arch yet constructed in this country, although a similar steel arch which is now being built over Sydney harbour is more than three times as long. The total expenditure on the bridge and its approaches exceeds £1,000,000.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20536, 11 October 1928, Page 9
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